At the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center for
Earth
and Space members had a conversation with astrophysicist,
Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden
Planetarium at the
American Museum of Natural History, author of ‘Death by
Black
Hole,’ a columnist for Natural History, and host of PBS NOVA
Science NOW
series.
Neil was selected for Time Magazine's "The Most Influential
People in the World - The Time 100."
Ian M. Tattersall, Curator, Division of Anthropology; and Co-Curator
of the Spitzer "Hall of Human Origins," American Museum of Natural
History spoke with us and collections manager, Gisselle Garcia
introduced us to
the "Hall of Human Origins."
Had a great lunch at Casa Mono on our way to the
Tibet House.
At The Tibet House, we had a conversation about ‘religion and
science’
with Robert Thurman, the department
of religion chair
and professor of
Indo-Tibetan studies at Columbia University,
founder of The Tibet House,
a personal student (almost 30 years)
of the Dalai
Lama, and author of
many books including ‘Infinite Life’.
In 1997, Time
Magazine chose
him as one of its 25 most
influential
Americans.
After a great breakfast in the Lower East Side, we walked
across
the Williamsburg Bridge to Eve Sussman's
Brooklyn
Studio.
We had a conversation with artist Eve Sussman about her
videos ‘89
Seconds at Alcazar’
(2004) and ‘The Rape of the
Sabine Women’ (2006),
her ideas and inspiration, and
her
creative company the Rufus Corporation.
Eve Sussman is the cover article for the April 2007 ‘Art in America’
magazine.
After lunch at our favorite italian restaurant, we went to Chelsea
for a
conversation with artist Peter Halley at his studio. Peter is the
director of painting/ printmaking at Yale
University.
His paintings are in the permanent collections of the Whitney
Museum
of American
Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
the Tate
Modern, the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, the Boston
Museum of
Fine Arts, and the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
In 2000 he
received the College Art Association’s Frank
Jewett
Mather Award for
distinction in art criticism. From 1996 to 2005
he was
the publisher of
index magazine.
Contemporary art specialist Jonathan Laib discussed and toured
members at the
presale Contemporary and Post War Art exhibition
at Christies Auction House. We'll be checking in this week to
see what everything sold for.
Who are those Chelsea gallery groupies?!!
This was Frank Stella's time in NYC. We caught his opening
in Chelsea and his roof-top show at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art.
A visit with some old friends .....
..... one last hot chocolate and a look at Central Park
before we left New York City.